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Jessica Molloy

Jessica Molloy

Holaaaa me llamo Jess! I just graduated from Belmont University in May receiving a degree in Elementary Education and a degree in Christian Leadership. Although I have moved around in my childhood to seven states, I am most recently from Birmingham, Alabama. I do love the south but ready to go further south to the […]

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The first week of March, I had the opportunity to step outside of the space of the safe house, La Vega, and the DR. I stepped back into college life at Belmont. Joy, the founder of New Hope and I were able to travel to Nashville at Belmont and speak about the organization in relation to the prompt ‘Who do I want to become?”. 

I realized quickly when listening to Joy speak and even when I spoke about New Hope myself, I found that it is so much bigger and so much grander than I could have ever expected. When you are in the thick of it with the girls day in and day out, yes, it feels big but not when talking to people about why New Hope exists. 

This trip gave me the fire to come back and go after it for my last three months. Each girl, each story, each step forward will be celebrated because I knew the bigness of it now. 

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